I am officially another year older. Only in terms of a label, though; time-wise I'm simply about 36 hours older than I was before... not another whole year.
People always ask, "Do you feel older? Do you feel different?" To this, I answer "No" and "Yes." No, I don't feel older. To feel older physically is all in one's head, and I choose to feel just as young as I did yesterday, last month, last year. In terms of feeling different, I suppose that physically I feel no different than I did before, but mentally I do. It's not due to my birthday and being a whole year older. It's not as though maturity suddenly hit me, or I awoke on the morning of my birthday to find myself a changed and grown person. No, it's rather that each day I'm free to shape my life as I want to live it. So in that respect, yes, I do feel different today than I did yesterday or the day before. As Michael Bublé so clearly states it, "It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life. For me. And I'm feeling good."
So while each day is new and different for me, for some reason my birthday seems extra special. It's as though I can begin my New Year's Resolutions all over again. While I know I can start them any day, and not just on my birthday, there's something about that "official" changing of age that gives me the opportunity to evaluate my life and alter that which I want to, to make myself a better person in my eyes. And, being 21, my first change is to cease thinking of my "bettering myself" attempts as things that must be done on New Year's, on my birthday, on a Monday, etc. Each day, each minute, I have the option and the ability to shape my life and myself, and I will remember this from here on out.
I had a very happy birthday and am already having a happy day-after-my-birthday, and shall continue to do so in the days to come!
People always ask, "Do you feel older? Do you feel different?" To this, I answer "No" and "Yes." No, I don't feel older. To feel older physically is all in one's head, and I choose to feel just as young as I did yesterday, last month, last year. In terms of feeling different, I suppose that physically I feel no different than I did before, but mentally I do. It's not due to my birthday and being a whole year older. It's not as though maturity suddenly hit me, or I awoke on the morning of my birthday to find myself a changed and grown person. No, it's rather that each day I'm free to shape my life as I want to live it. So in that respect, yes, I do feel different today than I did yesterday or the day before. As Michael Bublé so clearly states it, "It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life. For me. And I'm feeling good."
So while each day is new and different for me, for some reason my birthday seems extra special. It's as though I can begin my New Year's Resolutions all over again. While I know I can start them any day, and not just on my birthday, there's something about that "official" changing of age that gives me the opportunity to evaluate my life and alter that which I want to, to make myself a better person in my eyes. And, being 21, my first change is to cease thinking of my "bettering myself" attempts as things that must be done on New Year's, on my birthday, on a Monday, etc. Each day, each minute, I have the option and the ability to shape my life and myself, and I will remember this from here on out.
I had a very happy birthday and am already having a happy day-after-my-birthday, and shall continue to do so in the days to come!
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